Projects
Sep 2017 - ongoing - Assessment and Review of MGNREGA as a Social Protection Intervention in the Barak Valley Region of Assam: Baseline of Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj, in partnership with UNICEF Assam under the initiative of Department of Panchayat & Rural Development, Government of Assam.
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Jan 2010-May 2011 – Indian Council of Social Science Research sponsored project on Livelihood Study in the KBK Region of Orissa: Identification of the Gap and Providing a Statistical Database for the Development Planners of the State [with co-investigator: Dr. Prasun Kumar Das, Associate Professor, KIIT University] (Completed).
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June 2010 -June 2012 – IIT faculty Start-up Grant project on Women’s Participation in Wage Employment Programmes and its Contribution to Household Food Security: A Study of Assam and Meghalaya (Completed).
Research collaborations
2013 – 2014 – Member, Technical Working Group on Well-Being Assam Human Development Report 2014, jointly prepared by the Government of Assam, Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Sciences Guwahati (OKDISS), and Institute of Human Development (IHD), New Delhi. Chapter writer and Participant (Education domain, Well-being Index) Assam Human Development Report 2014
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2013- 2014 – International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal (Gender data analysis and State/District Reports with Ms. Suman Bisht for the states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh)
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2012-2013 – Baseline Survey Reports, for the Cereals System Initiative South Asia project with Dr. Prasun Kumar Das and Dr. Valerien Pede, Social Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines.
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May-July 2011 – Internship supervision of interns from MA Development Studies Programme (batch 2010- 12) on Area Share Expansion under Maize Cultivation in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar, in International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), India Office, under the project Cereals Systems Initiative for South Asia (with Dr. Vijesh V. Krishna, -Socio-Economist, CIMMYT India).